Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-07
GENERAL.

IT is not expected that the hop crop this
year will suffer from the hop louise.
AN express train going from Berlin II
Cologne was thrown from the track al
Muehlheim recently and seventeen persons
were more or less injured.
IT was reported in London that the tomb
OF Ovid, the Latin poet, had been discovered
at Kustendani, Italy.
THE Genesta won the jubilee yacht race
around Great Britain. Time, IL days, 16
hours and SIS minutes
A CONTRACT for an equestrian statue of
General Robert E. Lee has been awarded
to the French sculptor, Mercie, of Paris.
THE British Princes Albert Victor and
George reviewed the troops at Dublin on
the 18th and were given banquet in the
evening.
GENERAL FERRoN, the French Minister OF
War, estimates that the mobiliZing of the
army next fall will cost 10000 francs.
THE Lafayette Theater at Rouen, France,
has been destroyed by fire.
ONE hundred Moors, bearing firearms, at
tackled the Spahi patrol at Biskari, in Alge-
ria, recently, killing and wounding several
Many Moors were also killed and wounded.
The military interviewed and stopped the
fighting.
GENERAL BoULANGER has been appointed
to the command of the Thirteenth army
corps of France.
A FAREWELL dinner attended by many
noted men was given Prof. Tyndall in Lon
don the other night on his retirement from
the Royal Institution.
MEMBER of Parliament Murphy has sued
the commander of the British ship Shannon
for e1O,OO damages for trespass in tearing
down a green flag on his yacht jubilee day.
THE Belgian Chamber of Representatives
has reduced the duties on coffee.
The Crown Prince and Princess of Ger
many have left London on their return to
Berlin.
IT is limited very strongly in Paris that
General Boulanger was appointed to the
command of the Thirteenth army corps of
France for the purpose of keeping him
away from Paris during the national fetes.
A VIOLENT earthquake shock was expert
enced at Guayaquil, Mexico, on the morning
Of the 29th.
A MAJORITY of the committee of the
French Chamber of Deputies appointed to
study the question of the separation of
Church and State has approved the Bojsett
project for the abrogation of the concordat.
Very radical changes are proposed and no
further public grants will be made in aid
of any church.
KING MILAN of Servia has instructed
Premier Ristics to take measures to pre-
vent the return of Queen Natalie to Servia.
A Cabinet crisis was expected if the Pre-
mler refused to obey the King.
IN the Italian Chamber of Deputies re-
Gently Signor Mancinie declared that the
alliance between Italy, Germany and Aus
tria had been concluded with the sole idea
of securing the peace of Europe by purely
defensive means. The alliance, he de-
clared, preserved France from war.
AN exhibition of objects relating to mu-
sic will be held in Amsterdam from Sep
TENDER l to October Is.
A DEMONSTRATION in favor of General
Boulanger is being arranged in Paris.
THE pool of wallpaper manufacturers Of
the United States has come to an end.
A CARGO of tea has arrived in London
from Japan via the Canadian Pacific route.
occupying only thirty days and sixteen
hours in transit.
THE New Zealand Hotel, bank and twenty
two shops were destroyed by fire at Blen-
helm, N. T., recently. The loss was $3.50, 600.
In Cuba recently a man, his wife and
eight children were suffocated in their
dwelling. They had built fire of tobacco
over night as precaution against small
poX, which led to the calamity.
THE mercantile agency Of r. G. Dun &
Co. reports that for the first half of 1887
the failures in the United States were 4, 912
in number, against 5. 1856 for the same period
in the previous year, showing a decline of
PA. The liabilities show slight increase
in amount.
The strikers at Bolton, Eng, engaged in
riot the other night, throwing stones and
bolts. The presence of the troops overawed
the rioters, who soon dispersed.
S. D. WHITNEY, secretary of the Montreal
Board of Harbor Commissioners, is reported
missing with heavy defalcations.